#triumvirate toa

[somesharkguy111]

wanted to make silly stylised designs for the triumvirate because... they're just shapes to me. weird roman losers. evil in the most pathetic ways imaginable. they're such a cartoon set. perfect for shapes and colours. i like them.

[star-mannnn]

I bet Caligula wears platforms to triumvirate holdings, so that he’s the same height as Commodus, or taller

[polyhexianbirb]

Omg I love Scott Pilgrim vs the world! I love how he goes and has to fight the evil exes who want him dead becaus of this girl and started this whole company just to make his life difficult and he really sucks at fighting but hey at least he has his talking arrow-- what do you mean that's a different media?

[apollosothertwin]

Nero and Caligula definitely teased Commodus for his relationship with Apollo

[anonymous-ace72]

Slightly back on my bullshit in regards to roman portraiture but also linking it to Trials of Apollo because why tf not.

So, quick recap for those who don't know: Roman portraiture is to be taken with a grain of salt; especially Imperial portraiture. These are not realistic pictures of the people they portray, but rather carefully crafted, idealized images that would have been pre-approved by the subject before they were shown off to the world. They might include some individualized aspects (Pompey's portraits are a good example) but we really don't know what they look like.

On the other side of things, we can't really trust written accounts from people like Sutonious either, because in the case of the Julio-Claudians, he wrote about them some hundred years after that dynasty ended, and whatever sources he might have used in his describing of these people have long since been lost, and probably greatly embellished. Really, we have no clue what these people looked like. We don't even have remains to do facial reconstructions of because I'm pretty sure most imperial Romans would have been cremated.

So, what does this have to do with ToA?

I know within the universe of the books, the triumvirate is described in ways that look very similar to their surviving portraiture, it makes sense, these are the only images of these men we have left, but I thought it would be kind of cool if they only started looking more like their portraiture, after they became minor gods. Stay with me for a second.

These portraits were widely circulated, usually made as a means for the emperor to stand in during official events where he would need to be present, as well as just to remind everyone who's the boss. Most people in the Roman empire probably never physically saw the emperor himself, only these portraits, so this is the image of him that they would have known. I doubt, with the triumvirate being only minor dieties, that they have the ability to change their appearance at will like a major god can, but maybe one of the things that happened from transition from mortal to god is their appearance changed to fit more in with the widely circulated images around the empire. With some individuality sprinkled in as well.

Just an interesting thought I had.

[stepson-of-caligula]

I’m sorry that little boots is your dad

It's fine, I have a plan to sink his lingerie ship if you want to help though.

@emperor-not-little-boots If you buy any more Victoria's Secret I will sink it. I will.

[incorrect-sunflower-sibs]

Nero: He’s engaging the enemy!

Commodus: *Gets down on one knee and proposes to Apollo, who is crying profusely*

Caligula: How disgusting.

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

Nero, struggling to keep upright in his 1 inch heels: Yeah, I-I don’t really think heels are for me

Caligula, pointing at him and walking flawlessly in sparkly golden 6 inch heels: WEAK.

[star-mannnn]

I saw this on Facebook and it made me giggle because it was about the three emperors that were in trials of Apollo

It’s insane how much toa has caused me to learn. I don’t rely on the books for accurate information on these three, but they made me so interested in Caligula, so now I know way too much about him. I don’t know as much about Nero and Commodus, I know a little more on Nero than Commodus.

Anyways the point is, a children’s book series is the reason I’m majoring in archaeology and minoring in history.

[polyhexianbirb]

I like to call it "who will the gods pick to torture now that Percy is at college? Local nerd man ofc"

This is just page 1, page 2 will be linked here when completed (most likely tomorrow). Yes, I've worked our who pretty much everyone will be lol.

My man's have beef with some teenagers lolz

[apollosothertwin]

Part of the reason why I personally love copollo is that I know it would never work in the long run but they just fit together so well at the same time.

[anonymous-ace72]

Reading a little bit about the actual Colossus of Nero that stood in Rome for awhile. It stood long enough to have its face altered and changed a few times, and one of those alterations was to replace the head with the head of Commodus.

I’m just- I can’t really be sure within the ToA universe if Nero knew what happened with his statue after he died, as well as its ultimate fate in the end (likely melted down and reused for something else. Which is why we have so few bronze statues from ancient Rome) but I find the idea of him learning that Commodus defaced his colossal statue and replaced it with his own likeness hilarious.

[stepson-of-caligula]

I’m sorry that your dad is your dad

Yeah the bathroom is on yacht 6 and the bedroom is on yacht 35 and he don't care. I end up peeing in the ocean on yacht 33.

[triumvirateholdingsquotes]

Python: I’m afraid of clowns. There, I said it.

Caligula: Python, if you don't like clowns, why are you hanging with Nero?

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

you know what?

i think commodus was also in the triumvirate to (not only be a buffer between nero and caligula but) just cause apollo to FREAK THE FUCK OUT

HIS EX THAT HE MURDERED IS ALIVE OH NO OH GODS NO

nero and caligula would CACKLE at that mind game

[star-mannnn]

I’m really hoping we get Triumvirate Holdings easter eggs during season two of the pjo series. Like I want to see their logo on the princess andromeda so bad.